One user tweeted: “Delete the post, apologise, donate some of your $175 million to an eating disorder charity. it's the least you can do @KimKardashian.”

Another posted: “It’s not a bad thing to be hungry or to eat!! Stuff like this was so personally damaging when I was younger I hate that disorder eating is still being promoted. Delete this @KimKardashian.”

Following the removal a third wrote: “@KimKardashian nice of you to delete the post after triggering thousands of people?”

TV presenter Jameela Jamil was among those who criticised the post, slamming Kardashian as a “toxic influence”.

She tweeted: “No. F*** off. No. You terrible and toxic influence on young girls. I admire their mother’s branding capabilities, she is an exploitative but innovative genius, however this family makes me feel actual despair over what women are reduced to.”

She later encouraged Kardashian “to have something to say about your life at the end, other than 'I had a flat stomach'.”

Standard Online has contacted a representative for Kardashian for comment.